The Oceania DX (OCDX) contest committee is pleased to announce that the results of the 2016 OCDX contest have been published on the OCDX website (www.OceaniaDXcontest.com). Congratulations to all the participants, especially the winners who triumphed over the poor radio conditions.

Low solar activity in the PHONE section, and high QRN in the South Pacific for the CW section, made the OCDX contest one of the more challenging events. Nevertheless, we are delighted to report an increase in the number of entrants: 1,192 logs were received, a pleasing advance on 2015’s total of 1,169.

Participation from Oceania and Asia increased, especially Indonesia, the Philippines, East Malaysia and Hawaii. Activity from 9M6, A35, DU, KH0, KH2, V85, and VK9 was very welcome. Encouragement for newcomers to contesting in Indonesia included a contest-within-a-contest to earn tee shirts sponsored by enthusiastic YB Elmers.

Remarkably, despite the challenges, some 26 new continent records and 144 new country records were set in 2016.

“It is hard to work with VK or ZL with low power and wire vertical on the balcony” said DD5KG. “Fortunately, there were a few stations with big antennas able to read even my weak signals!”. Many entrants commented on the poor conditions. “Someone built a Faraday Cage around Australia” said VK3NCC, “and the S8 QRN was unbelievable”. JK7DWD told us “Many thanks to all who were patient with me pulling calls. Every QSO is appreciated.” The final comment from ZL2AGY sums it up. “Roll on next year!”

Browse the results page for more information about the 2016 event including the results summary and detailed scores, all the soapbox comments plus photos of the leading entrants and their stations.

2016 CERTIFICATES
Certificates have been awarded to the top scoring station in each category for each continent and country. Additionally, a participation certificate identifying the number of successful QSOs has been awarded to each station that participated in the contest. The certificates are available for individual entrants to download and print at their convenience via the links on the results page .

LOG CHECKING REPORTS
A log checking report is produced for each entry in the contest. This report includes information about QSOs that were busted and removed from the score calculation. You can request a copy of your log checking report by sending an email to the contest committee at infooceaniadxcontest [dot] com .

2017 OCDX CONTEST
The next OCDX contest will be held on the first two full weekends of October 2017 as follows: